Flock is popular with 1) local police departments and 2) local city councils who don't want to upset the police
It's pretty unpopular with mainly everyone else.
It's pretty unpopular with mainly everyone else.
This doesn't have the scientific rigor of a random sample, but it's enough to convince me that the anti-Flock voices on HN are not representative of the public at large. And might not even be representative of HN.
Breaking Points had an episode on Flock yesterday featuring a member of the management calling anti-Flock people domestic terrorists. When I watched it on YT it had 80K views.
EDIT: here's a list of 30+ cities that cancelled their contracts with Flock because of above reasons: https://stateofsurveillance.org/news/flock-safety-cancel-wav...
I respect John Stewart for moving more towards real politics than playing the "I'm just a comedian" role.
John Oliver is popular in a certain political niche (which includes me, btw). I don't think he's representative of the population as a whole. I'm not representative of the population as a whole either.
30 cities have cancelled Flock. Thousands haven't. What lesson am I supposed to draw from that?